Kaepernick’s college coach declines to tutor NFL teams

The running backs coach at Washington State, Mastro has had a message for NFL teams hoping to pick his brain on how to stop the read-option and quarterbacks such as Colin Kaepernick: get lost.

OK, he’s presumably been more polite, but he really has declined the NFL’s requests because of his loyalty to Kaepernick. The connection? Mastro was Nevada’s running backs coach during Kaepernick’s career in Reno.

As a result of his 11 seasons at Nevada, Mastro learned the Pistol offense from its creator, Wolf Pack coach Chris Ault. That explains the interest from NFL teams in Mastro after defenses were routinely vexed by the read-option in 2012.

Given his background, Mastro could shed plenty of light on defending the attack. Instead, he’ll do his part to keep defenses in the dark.

“As long as Colin is in the NFL, I’m not going to do that,” Mastro told CBSSports.com. “He is like a son to me. There are plenty of people (NFL teams) can get a hold of that can help them.”